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Skriven 2015-12-25 15:31:32 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.73)
  Kommentar till text 29626 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Rules of Echomail
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25 Dec 15 13:22, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 MV>>> Not in this part of the world. It certainly was not "common
 MV>>> practise" here when I became involved in 1992. It was the cost
 MV>>> sharing organisations that ditributed the echomail. It was the cost
 MV>>> sharing organisations that decided which echos were distributed. It
 MV>>> was not possible to just "found an echo" and become the moderator.
 MV>>> Moderators were the executive force of the CSOs. They derived their
 MV>>> mandate - and their teeth - by proxy from the right of might of the
 MV>>> CSOs.

 JD>> The Cost Sharing here was done per net, so not the same

 MV> Here it was done regionally. So indeed not the same.

here it was done by anyone who wanted to do it... if they had a good feed and
the cost was properly distributed between the systems pulling the echos then
they got folks to join in and stay with their service... if they tried to make
a profit or were overbearing or would not carry some echos then folks left
their service and moved on to another or just dropped the dime themselves... a
lot of ""little hitlers"" found themselves with no downlinks in a very short
time... hell, this net had three cost sharing programs... disputes with the
members of one of them lead to a split of the group and the introduction of a
fourth... there was mine on dialup when i finally went to 16k8+, the NEC's with
however he pulled his feed, and a satellite feed which split into two satellite
feeds with the afore mentioned dispute...

)\/(ark

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